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What the Helen of Troy is This?
Here’s an odd sight I caught up in Crestwood. Now, of course we’ve all seen shoes thrown up in wires like this but have you ever seen logs up there? The sky was crap so the photos didn’t come out that well but one of the logs has a wire going directly through it. Totally stumped me. Any explanations?
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“one of the logs has a wire going directly through it”
That is why they can’t cut it down. They would cut the wire. That would be bad.
Have this in my backyard. Old tree grows up and envelops the cable. So, treecutting crews take out that portion of the tree and haul off the rest.
Totally stumped … *groan*
How does the branch end up growing all the way around the wire like that?
Whenever I see this, I am reminded of the story where the obese women who never moved herself off the sofa had her skin growing into the fabric.
Trees grow from the bark inward. If the wire is only on one side, some trees are able to heal it’s wound by growing bark over the wire. I have also seen trees growing around fences. Getto palms (Trees of heaven) AKA Ailanthus are particularly adaptable.
haha totally “stumped” you.
Pretty common, trees will grow around most things that get in their way. Once I had to clear a fence line of trees, many of which had enveloped the chain link. Only way to get them off was to burn them…
Yeah I have one of those treenubbins in my backyard as well, probably when the Tree service cut off a branch from a local tree they avoided the power lines. I wonder how much weight those lines can support?
The tree must have grown around the wire.